"Has your amplifier been PAT tested?" (ie, does it have a chassis earth to stop it electrocuting people?)"No, it's really dangerous, like lightning, it might kill anyone in the audience at any moment""...right... I... I'll need to get back to you on this..."

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

Thom Hartmann on the story of the real tea party (spoiler: it was really about protesting a corporate tax cut).

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

PKMKII wrote:Thom Hartmann on the story of the real tea party (spoiler: it was really about protesting a corporate tax cut).

That's really interesting. I read an article about 'The Boston Tea Party' recently but I don't think it made reference to a first hand account. The British East India Company was immensely powerful and also governed India up until The Indian Mutiny in 1858.

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

I found the article about the 'Boston Tea Party'. It portrays the 'Boston tea Party' as an event which had global origins and a global legacy. In the article it says: "no one knows for sure who they were, or exactly how many of them were there'. The book mentioned by Thom Hartman clearly mentioned George Robert Twelvetree Hughes as having written a first hand account of the protest, a fact which obviously wasn't known to the author of 'Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the making of America.'

The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.

Last week, the episode of 'Coast' that aired here had us all huddled up on the sofa wallowing in homesickness, as they toured the south coast of Ireland. (No, I didn't spot our house; it's half mile inland).

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

A young Barack Obama. Obviously, his birth certificate doesn't list his religion as Muslim, it says "Pastafarian"!

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical and cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." Bill Hicks."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." Abraham Lincoln"Are you OK?" daftbeaker (<-- very good question, people should ask it more often.)

But you're wrong, .ru is the extension for russian domains. Romanian domains is at .ro. Your point still valid though.

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